Sri Lanka, April 29 -- The North Central Provincial High Court in Anuradhapura on Friday (26) sentenced to life imprisonment five Police officers including the Bharathipuram Police station OIC over the murder of eight unarmed Tamil civilians of the Bharathipuram village in Kantale about 26 years ago.

The Attorney General had indicted seven Police officers in connection with the killing of these civilians which took place on or about January 31, 1998 and two of the accused were acquitted by Court on Friday (26) .

Those civilians had been killed by an armed group by shooting at them after they were taken into the Bharathipuram Police station and the Police officers were accused of being the members of an unlawful assembly with the intenti...